Recent #AI Chip news in the semiconductor industry

7 months ago

➀ HP's servers are experiencing a surge in sales due to the adoption of NVIDIA's 'world's strongest AI chip', the GB200;

➁ Major cloud service providers like Microsoft and Meta are actively introducing GB200 and expanding their purchases of the higher-end NVL72 cabinets;

➂ Foxconn, as the exclusive supplier of GB200 and NVL72 cabinets, is seeing a flood of orders and a significant boost in server business.

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7 months ago
➀ Raspberry Pi introduces the new AI HAT+ with two variants, 13 and 26 TOPS; ➁ The HAT+ is based on Hailo-8 neural network inference accelerators; ➂ The 26 TOPS variant is designed for larger networks and can run multiple networks simultaneously.
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8 months ago
➀ Imec spin-off Brailsports is developing a platform for optimizing athlete training volumes and schedules based on data analysis; ➁ The platform uses AI models to estimate individual athlete fitness and fatigue, improving performance and reducing injury risk; ➂ The platform is currently operational at cycling team Lotto Dstny, with positive results.
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8 months ago

➀ Hanwenji's stock price surged to a historical high, surpassing 140 billion yuan in market value, during the recent A-share bull market.

➁ Despite the company's consistent losses and declining revenue, the market's enthusiasm for Hanwenji is driven by its AI chip technology and the rise of AI and domestic substitution trends.

➂ Hanwenji, as a domestic AI chip leader, faces challenges such as funding and supply chain issues, but also has significant growth potential in the AI chip market.

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8 months ago

➀ The increasing complexity of AI models and the exponential growth of network numbers and types have led to a dilemma for chip manufacturers between fixed function acceleration and programmable accelerators;

➁ The general AI processing methods are not up to standard, and focusing on specific use cases or workloads can achieve greater power saving and better performance in smaller space;

➂ The trend of AI algorithm complexity is increasing, and the number of floating-point operations is increasing, and the trend line is only pointing upwards and to the right.

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8 months ago

➀ The Dimensity 9400, with a 3nm process, PC-grade Arm V9 architecture, and the 8th generation NPU, marks the latest achievement in mobile AI chips.

➁ The Dimensity 9400 supports the first-end DiT architecture, enabling video generation without internet connection on smartphones.

➂ The Dimensity 9400 achieves 32K text length for large models, eight times the length of the Dimensity 9300.

➃ The Dimensity 9400 supports running multi-modal large models on the endpoint and surpasses previous SOTA with a speed of 50 Tokens per second.

➄ The Dimensity 9400 leads the Zurich ETHZ mobile SoC AI performance list with a score of 6773, 1.4 times that of the Dimensity 9300.

➅ The Dimensity 9400 adopts TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, with a 35% single-core performance improvement and a 28% multi-core performance improvement over the previous generation, and a 40% reduction in power consumption.

➆ Mediatek has integrated the Dimensity AI Intelligent Agent Engine, which can achieve cross-application operations based on user needs and remember user habits, making the phone smarter and more convenient.

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8 months ago

➀ The partnership between NVIDIA and TSMC, one of the most profitable in AI chip business, is showing signs of tension due to production issues with NVIDIA's new Blackwell chip.

➁ Issues with the chip, including potential design flaws, were discovered during testing by NVIDIA engineers.

➂ TSMC employees believe that NVIDIA's rushed production requirements contributed to the problems.

➃ NVIDIA's Blackwell chip mass production plan is delayed to the fourth quarter, with additional costs incurred.

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➀ Computing power is an important indicator of a computer's information processing capability, with AI computing power focusing on AI applications, commonly measured in TOPS and TFLOPS, and provided by dedicated chips such as GPU, ASIC, and FPGA for algorithm model training and inference.

➁ AI chip accuracy is a way to measure computing power level, with FP16 and FP32 used in model training, and FP16 and INT8 used in model inference.

➂ AI chips typically use GPU and ASIC architectures. GPUs are the key components in AI computing due to their advantages in computation and parallel task processing.

➃ Tensor Core, an enhanced AI computing core compared to the parallel computation performance of Cuda Core, is more focused on the deep learning field and accelerates AI deep learning training and inference tasks through optimized matrix operations.

➄ TPUs, a type of ASIC designed for machine learning, stand out in high energy efficiency in machine learning tasks compared to CPUs and GPUs.

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➀ The research investigates the effects of adding TiC nanoparticles to aluminum alloy 7075, aiming to enhance casting performance and improve fluidity and surface quality; ➁ TiC nanoparticles were introduced in two concentrations, and their impact on fluidity and microstructure was analyzed; ➂ The results showed a significant improvement in fluidity and surface quality, with finer grain sizes and smoother surfaces.
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8 months ago

➀ YiZhu Technology announced the completion of several hundred million yuan in financing, led by a well-known overseas fund;

➁ The company is focused on innovative architecture to break and reduce 'storage wall', 'energy consumption wall', and 'compilation wall', developing products for data centers, AI cloud computing, and central AI servers;

➂ Since its establishment, YiZhu Technology has received extensive attention from the capital market, including support from major investment institutions.

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8 months ago
➀ AMD unveiled a series of AI products including a new flagship AI chip, server CPU, AI network card, DPU, and AI PC mobile processor; ➁ The flagship AI chip AMD Instinct MI325X GPU uses HBM3E high bandwidth memory, with AI peak computing power reaching 21PFLOPS; ➂ AMD disclosed the latest AI chip roadmap with the MI350 series using CDNA 4 architecture, expected to be launched next year; ➃ AMD launched the world's first AI network card supporting UEC and the Pensando Salina 400 DPU, doubling performance; ➄ The fifth-generation EPYC server CPU supports up to 192 cores and 384 threads, with a top price of 14813 USD per core; ➅ AMD's third-generation commercial AI mobile processor Ryzen AI PRO 300 series is expected to be on the market with more than 1 million units by 2025.
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8 months ago
➀ TSMC reported revenue of $23.62 billion in the July-September period, a 36% year-on-year increase; ➁ September sales reached $7.74 billion, up 39.6% from the same period last year; ➂ Half of TSMC's revenue now comes from HPC, with growth driven by AI ICs, and demand for which depends on large AI investors finding paying customers for AI products.
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8 months ago
➀ Shanghai Siyuang Technology Co., Ltd. (Siyuang Technology) has completed the listing guidance registration with Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau and is preparing for an IPO. Siyuang Technology is a super unicorn in the AI chip field, founded by Zhao Lidong, a graduate of Tsinghua University's Radio and Telecommunication Engineering Department 85th class. The company has raised nearly 7 billion yuan in financing, with Tencent being one of the largest investors. According to Hurun Research Institute, Siyuang Technology is valued at 16 billion yuan, ranking 482nd in the Global Unicorn List. ➁ Siyuang Technology has chosen to focus on AI training chips, a field with high difficulty and high barriers. The company has developed a series of AI training and inference chips, providing underlying computing power for Internet companies, cloud service providers, operators, and research institutions. ➃ The domestic AI chip market is facing challenges such as high cost of migration and technical support. Siyuang Technology needs to consider how to commercialize its computing centers. The article discusses the challenges and opportunities for Siyuang Technology and other domestic AI chip companies as they prepare for the IPO.
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8 months ago
➀ Cerebras Systems, a company specializing in AI training and inference chips, has filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ with the ticker symbol 'CBRS'. It is known for its wafer-scale engine (WSE) chips, the largest in the world.➁ The company reported a net loss of 3 billion USD (about 21 billion RMB) from 2022 to 2023, but its revenue increased nearly 1500% to 1.364 billion USD in the first half of 2024.➂ Cerebras' chips have four technical advantages for AI: large-scale, tightly coupled computing; fast and efficient interconnection; ultra-large on-chip memory and memory bandwidth; and local hardware acceleration for sparsity.
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